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Lady Bird Johnson Nature Trail Beginning
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<b>Welcome to the Lady Bird Johnson Grove Nature Trail</b><br /> <br /> This 1.5mile (2.4km) loop winds through an old-growth redwood forest. This grove, like many others in Redwood National and State Parks, stands as a reminder of the extensive redwood forests that one blanketed the Pacific Coast from southern Oregon to Big Sur, California. Intense logging from 1850 through the present reduced these once endless forests to a fraction of their original expanse. Today, less than four percent of the old-growth redwood forests remain.<br /> <br /> Remnant old-growth forests persist. They persist because water, wind, fire, and light shepherd the forest through infinite centuries of birth, growth, death, and regeneration - without human interruption.<br /> <br /> Enter a place where time is measured in centuries and millennia. Here, majestic redwoods stand as regal as they did when our ancestors first gazed skyward into the dark canopy. The forest changes slowly here, yet it is forever reborn. We are only passing witnesses to the ongoing progression of life among these quiet giants.<br /> <br /> <em>Please remember that flowers and plants in Redwood National and State Parks are protected by law. Do not pick wildflowers or vegetation, so all park visitors can enjoy them. Report vandalism or theft to the nearest visitor center or park ranger.</em>
Lady Bird Johnson Grove Trail
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Located not far from Highway 101, this easy walk through old-growth redwoods has been a popular destination for decades.<br /> <br /> This family friendly trail is a 1.5 mile (2.5 km) loop that winds through a mixed forest of redwoods and other tall conifers. However, there is…
Lady Bird Johnson Nature Trail Stop #1
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<b>A Timeless Place</b><br /> <br /> Countless people through the years have entered this grove of trees. They, too, gazed at the stupendous heights of the redwoods and vainly stretched their arms around the stalwart gray trunks. How long ago did our own ancestors first share…
Lady Bird Johnson Nature Trail Stop #2
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.<b>Forest Everlasting</b><br /> <br /> “Sempervirens”, the scientific species name for the coast redwoods, means everlasting. Coast redwoods live longer than almost any plants on our planet. The largest trees found their first rays of sunlight when Aztecs and Mayans ruled Cen…
Lady Bird Johnson Nature Trail Stop #3
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<b>Fire Survivor</b><br /> <br /> How do hollow redwoods survive? Despite the North Coast’s wet climate, redwood forests experience occasional wildfires. Fire plays a critical role by clearing dense ground cover and giving new seedlings the opportunity to grow. More intense wi…
Lady Bird Johnson Nature Trail Stop #13
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<b>Full Circle</b><br /> <br /> For us, the character of a redwood forest changes daily. One day, shimmering strands of yellow light beam from crystal blue skies through open windows of the forest canopy. The next day may bring fog or rain, enshrouding the dark green spires an…
Lady Bird Johnson Nature Trail Stop #4
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<b>More than Redwoods</b><br /> <br /> Redwoods do not stand alone. In fact, what we call old-growth redwood forests may contain as few as eight or ten of the towering monarchs per acre. A diverse community of plants and animals thrive in the shadows of the redwood canopy. Hig…
Lady Bird Johnson Nature Trail Stop #5
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<b>Living with the Wind</b><br /> <br /> Wind is the great gardener of this ridgetop community. The quiet whisper of summer breezes give way to the powerful gusts of winter storms that can snap the highest branches, sending “widowmakers” plummeting hundreds of feet to the fore…
Lady Bird Johnson Nature Trail Stop #12
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<b>Rebirth</b><br /> <br /> Like newborns clinging to their parents, new forest life clings in abundance to this fallen redwood. Salal, huckleberry, rhododendron, spruce, and hemlock all arise from this slowly deteriorating giant. A new redwood reaches out from its burled base…
Lady Bird Johnson Nature Trail Stop #6
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<b>Towering Patriarchs</b><br /> <br /> Gazing up the immense trunk to the highest reaches of a redwood tree gives us a powerful sense of our own smallness. Capable of ascending to heights over 360 feet, coast redwoods tower over all living things on the planet. Most of its so…
Lady Bird Johnson Nature Trail Stop #7
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<b>A Forest Protected</b><br /> <br /> By the 1960s, aboriginal redwood forests that had stood for millennia vanished in less than a century. Logged, milled, and shipped elsewhere, the redwoods of northern California built the homes and infrastructure of an expanding nation. T…
